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University of California, Berkeley alumni

  • Jack LondonJack London was born on the 12th of January, 1876, in a San Francisco neighborhood that would later burn to the ground in the earthquake of 1906.
  • Philip K. DickPhilip K. Dick died on the 2nd of March 1982, in a Santa Ana hospital, having never seen the film that would make his name famous.
  • Roger SessionsRoger Huntington Sessions entered the world on the 28th of December 1896 in Brooklyn, New York. His family lineage traced back to Samuel Huntington, a…
  • Stith ThompsonStith Thompson was born in Bloomfield, Nelson County, Kentucky on the 7th of March 1885. He grew up as the son of John Warden and Eliza McClaskey.
  • David J. PetersonDavid J. Peterson built languages for worlds that do not exist. In 2009, HBO needed a language for the Dothraki people in Game of Thrones, and they turned to…
  • Daniel KahnemanDaniel Kahneman was born on the 5th of March, 1934, in Tel Aviv, while it was still the British Mandate of Palestine. He would go on to win the Nobel…
  • Rodney StarkRodney William Stark grew up in Jamestown, North Dakota, in a Lutheran family, attended journalism school, and spent several years as a newspaper reporter…
  • Timothy LearyTimothy Francis Leary was arrested 36 times between the 1960s and 1970s, a record that tells you something about how seriously the American establishment…
  • Tim SchaferTim Schafer was born on the 26th of July, 1967, in Sonoma, California, the youngest of five children. His path to becoming one of gaming's most celebrated…
  • Jack VanceJack Vance published his first story in the summer of 1945 in Thrilling Wonder Stories. It ran sixteen pages. Over the next seven decades, he would go on to…
  • Lawrence KleinLawrence Robert Klein was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on the 14th of September 1920, and he would go on to reshape how governments and central banks understand…
  • Roger RevelleRoger Randall Dougan Revelle was, by his own account, the grandfather of the greenhouse effect. That was how he described himself to a reporter after…